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Show t.Mafter John Cottons An[flltr But [ecoudly,f.l!th bt, IfBabel b.c locaO '1""'' .then there mHjl be a lnc•U Judea, aL.md of Canaan alfo • iflio wEich the S•ims are cal-led. . Rep!J. 1. It followeth not; for the Angel that calleth them out of B,brl, doth not calt them into Jude>, or C•naan. There is no mention ..,f (i.Jch places in that call at all. 2. There be, and will b~,-whcn'Rameis defiroyed,and before it be deflroyed, viliblc Churches of Chri!l:, (as was Judea aod C.J. naanof old;) into which thefe S.1ints who are called tO depart out of.Rom,, have a ju!l: calling to come and to jayne th<mfdvc,. .For iris out ofthe Temple, and out of t~e Te(llple open in Heaven, out of which thofc Angds come, who powrc om the vi ails of -Gods wrath, both upon the AntichrHl:ian State,-md upon the Ci· . tie of B.b,tan it [elfe,Rev. IS· s,6. wi th Chap. t6 . 19. The Ex•miner need not here aske, Whether 111'. Cotton canfa_ tufie hi< own f>ulc, or the Joula of ather men, i11 m z4ing a local/ departure from old England toNe..,, M if therein we bad obryed that vnyce of the Angel, .Come aut afB•b;lon my People, partakt not of her jinnes, .&c. For 1. I doe not countEngland,literally to be Babel, nor mylli· "\ly neither. I beleeve a man may live and dye in England, and yet cboy that Ccmmandement of the Angel in all the parts ofit. Some other t;odly men might finde more favour and" exemption from Babylonifh corru).>tions in the mid!l: of England, chen I was fufhcd to doe, without local! departure, . 2. Thou~h I t!linke, that in thore words, Came out of B.bel mJ People, locall reparation be intmdcd, yet when he addeth, Left yee be p•rta~rs of her ji11na, I beleeve, fpiritualt fepHation is much more rcq~ired; and locall reparation as a meanes the better to at· taine that end of fpirituall fcparadon from partaking in her finnes. Which may alfo cleare the meaning of the T<x·, and the fraud of the Exam:ner. For the words are not (as he atledgeth them) Cmne rut of Babel, my people, Part a~ not of her jinne1 1 For Co the latter part might be an'~":>''"" · of!xp\anation of the former: Com· ing out of B,bt!, might be all one with , P .Jrt.akt not of her Jinnn. But the words of the Text be, t;ame met of her, my People, that J'" be m t p.rtJbl!r aflm finnes. Wtiich plainly ugueth, that coming out . , . ol _______l_o_ A_fafterRoger~VVu;il~li:am~s.------~~~~~ o~B.abellocally, Ia a memes to prevent partaking in her finnes fptntually. .. It is true which he faith, The Lor& J'fm bath broke" duA7ne all diffire.nce. of Places, (Joh. 4· )and aU dijfimue of Perfons, A&.s 10. -To wrt,m regard of ceremoniall pollution, or cerenJCniall holinefTe. But if he thinke, there is no difference between one Citie or Countrey more then another in morall pollutions of ldu!atry' & fuperll:ition,unrighteoufntife and uncleannelfe,he maketh himf:lfe a greater ftranger both to the Word and to the world, then I did thinke he had been, The two caufes of Gods lndi~nation againfi England, which he fuggefteth, are worthy due conlideration and attention. I would rather fay Amen to them, then weaken the weight of them. Onely I fhould fo alfent to the latter, as not to moove for a Toleration of all Dlffenters, Diffenters in Fundamencalls, and that out of obfiinacy againft confcience,and Seducers, to the perdition of foules apd to .the difturbance o~ Civi!l and Church-Pililce : but onely of fuch Dilfenters, as vary etther m-mattenofleffe weight, or offundamentall, yet not out of wilfull obfiinacy, but out of tenderne!Te of Confcience. · As for the Controverfie,which the Examiner faith, He bath with me, Whtther falf• warjbip be not onely locaO, but Q·JPirituaO Guilt and nat anely a·Guilt,hut alfo an Habit, .&c. ' I doe acknowledge no fuch controverfie between us : I wholly conCeRt with him in the Point. Onely I doe not beleeve, all that to be either a Guilt,m an H•bit of falfe worfhip, which he doth imagine: but in his termes I accord. To C H A p, X VI. His t6'b Chapte~ is taken up in Exu11ining and Anfwering the Expofiuon whtch my Le!ter.gave of that Text formerly alledged, 2 Car. 6. 14, 15, 16. Ot wh1ch I l•id, •. 11JJt tb, T,xt onely req~<irtth Coming out from Id.I.Jtm in the fl l!owJh• p nf their Idal,ltry: No M.mi>ges "''" tbey to mJ~ witb tb,m·: :o Fe:JII_ w<re tbey to bold wi~h th.'m i11_tb<J.doi!J T,mpla:No intim . .:e .rmh.lrtue z:rere tbty ta tnJlTJt~ure wtzh wem : Nor any Fc!!o:vfbip Mm n'~;:e |